Our favourite aristocratic family and their faithful servants are back! It’s been four long years since we bid farewell to Downton Abbey, but we’ll be able to make up for lost time with this month’s release of its first feature film. Here are several spots in jolly old England where you can traipse around its most spectacular filming locations.

Highclere Castle

The real-life Downton Abbey is, of course, Highclere Castle, one of the United Kingdom’s most resplendent trophy homes. Highclere Castle tours run throughout summer, but there are several opportunities this fall to suss out the key rooms used in filming. Take afternoon tea, tour the Egyptian Exhibition (the Earl’s great-grandfather discovered King Tut’s tomb) or shop for Christmas gifts in December.

The Saloon is one of the many grandiose rooms you can waltz through while touring Highclere Castle.Highclere Castle

Bampton

The village of Bampton doubles as the fictional village of Downton, and can’t be missed. Situated in Oxfordshire, it’s about an hour’s drive from Highclere Castle. Begin by popping into the Bampton Archive, inside the Vesey Room of the Old Grammar School Building. Here you can pick up a Downton Mile map to guide you through all the highlights, from the church where Mary and Matthew were married to Churchgate House, used for exterior shots of Isabel Crawley’s house.

Poor Edith! She was jilted at this altar — St. Mary’s in real life, renamed St. Michaels and All Angels in the series.Jody Robbins

Cogges

Located a mere 10 km from Bampton, Cogges Manor Farm transformed into Yew Tree Farm in Season 4 and 5. This was the home of farmer Drew, who looked after Edith’s illegitimate child, Marigold. The farmhouse itself dates from the 13th century and is much too large for a farmer’s cottage, so only half the exterior was shot for scenes. The farm is a picturesque collection of wisteria-clad Cotswold stone farm buildings. Stroll through the 17th-century stables, meet the resident farm animals, or take tea inside the historic kitchen.

The manor house at Cogges is utterly charming, as is the rest of the property.Jody Robbins

Somerset House

This grand, neoclassical building set smack dab in central London, was where Violet, the Dowager Countess and her trusty maid Dekker, visited Russian refugee Prince Kuragin in Season 5. Somerset House is now a working arts centre with galleries galore. Take a complimentary studio tour the third Saturday of each month or a historical highlights tour every Thursday and Saturday. Who knows, you just might find out if the caustic countess really did have a paramour.

If you like art (and Downton Abbey) you’ll want to add Somerset House to your London itinerary.Somerset House

National Gallery

It’s hard to believe that dutiful wife Countess Cora would ever betray her beloved Earl, but in Season 5, Episode 3, we know she was tempted. It was at London’s National Gallery where Cora met up with art historian Simon Bricker to look at paintings. Home to one of the world’s greatest collections of European masterpieces, you can peer at the works of Monet, Van Gogh and Michelangelo, and admission is free.

Budget plenty of time to tour London’s National Gallery, but don’t miss the National Portrait Gallery tucked behind it.National Gallery

Bridgewater House

Beside Green Park lies Bridgewater House, A.K.A. Lord and Lady Grantham’s London home. As you might expect, its real owners are just as loaded. Owned by the Latsis family, a Greek shipping dynasty, the house is rented out for filming — but only its exterior. Unless you’re a member of a historical society, you’ll be hard pressed to get an invite inside this private residence, but it’s worth strolling by. And, wouldn’t you know it, Prince Charles and Camilla happen to live down the block in Clarence House.

Lancaster House

To reach this honey-hued Grade I listed building in Green Park, you’ll have to duck down Milk Maid’s Passage, to the East of Canada Gate at Green Park. The interiors at Lancaster House are said to be more magnificent than Buckingham Palace, which is why both Downton Abbey and The Crown use it for filming. It’s here, where Lady Rose was presented to the King during The London Season episodein Season 4 (and Elizabeth II brushed up on her knighting skills in The Crown, Season 1). In reality, this grand building houses the Government Wine Cellar and offers open house daysfrom time to time.

The interiors at Lancaster House are so opulent, Queen Victoria is rumoured to have said to its owners, “I have come from my house to your palace.”Gov.UK